Tupac Shakur; Jada Pinkett Smith.Photo:Raymond Boyd/Getty ; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Raymond Boyd/Getty ; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Tupac ShakurandJada Pinkett Smithhad a once-in-a-lifetime kind of friendship.
TheRed Table Talkhost explained that the two had “a connection” and were able to talk to each other about their financial struggles and mothers’ substance abuse issues. Quickly, they realized their connection meant that they were to be “lifelong friends.”
Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett Smith in 1996.Mychal Watts/WireImage
Mychal Watts/WireImage
“When you have somebody that has your back when you feel like you’re nothing, that’s everything,” the Emmy winner said.
The “California Love” rapper’s sisterSekyiwa Shakuropens up about her brother’s relationships with Pinkett Smith and their friend John Cole at the time in the book. “All I remember is John coming over to the house all the time. And nothing else could be talked about but Jada,” she says inTupac Shakur. “His music changed. This people changed. And Jada came — the entity! The magazine posters had come off his wall and John’s art went up on his wall. And pictures of Jada.”
Robinson also writes of a poem the Grammy-nominated artist wrote to Pinkett Smith after Shakur moved to Marin City, California, in which he called her, “The omega of my Heart” and wrote of how much he admires her.
Shakur wrote of his friend, “u will never fully understand / How Deeply my Heart Feels 4 u.”
“U R my Heart in Human Form / a Friend I could never replace,” the poem concludes.
Over the years, theGirls Tripstar hasspoken out about their relationship, sharing anecdotes in interviews and postingpreviously unreleased poemsof his on social media.
In an October interview withRollingOut, shedescribed their connectionas being a “soulmate friendship.”
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“If there is such a thing as past lives, I definitely think that Pac and I have traveled a few together,” she said when asked if she ever regretted that their relationship was never romantic. “It just wasn’t possible.”
“It was like God made us that way,” she continued. “It was like, look, I’m going to put y’all together, right? Y’all are going to be a dynamic duo. But I’m going to tell you right now, I’m going to make it so y’all are not going to be able to get together ‘cause that just wasn’t the purpose."
In early October, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Departmentarrested a suspect in connectionwith the hip-hop star’s 1996 murder, marking the biggest break in the cold case in nearly 27 years.
source: people.com
